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Category Archives: #rhizo14
Penfriends
When I was a teenager I had two pen friends – one in Paris and one in Berlin. I wrote them painfully dull letters in excruciating French and German and received equally dull letters back from them. My heart sank … Continue reading
Posted in #CLMOOC, #rhizo14, #rhizo15, MOOC
Tagged #clmooc, #rhizo14, #rhizo15, friendship. penfriends, penpals
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Being vulnerable
I’ve had so much fun over the last 18 or so months. Ever since I happened upon rhizo14 and then discovered other such events I have been making the most wonderful friends. I’m not going to list you all – … Continue reading
Squinting sideways
Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things:– We murder to dissect. (Wordsworth, The Tables Turned) I often used to feel that doing analytic philosophy was like pulling the legs of a spider … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, #rhizo15, Learning, Rhizomes, Wittgenstein
Tagged #rhizo14, analysis, family resemblance, Wittgenstein, Wordsworth
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Rhizocats
This week we presented at ALT-C, a fairly large (about 500 delegates) annual conference which was held in Manchester this year. Maha has already blogged about us all meeting there, so I won’t repeat that – but I do have … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, Conferences, Learning, MOOC, Online learning, Rhizomes, Social Media, Technology
Tagged #ALTC, #rhizo14, ALT, cMOOC, learning community, rhizomatic learning
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Email for rhizoANT projects
As we’re looking at collaborative tools for an upcoming presentation about rhizo14, Rebecca and AK have both written about their feelings of their experiences with using email. In particular, AK talks about the challenges posed by having multiple email addresses – … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, #rhizo15, ANT, Editing, MOOC, Rhizomes, Technology, Writing
Tagged #rhizo14, ANT, collaborative writing, email, Slack
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Google Docs and ANT
I use Google Docs a lot. It makes it easy for me to find and edit things I am writing no matter which computer I find myself using, and it is also easy to share documents with others and collaborate … Continue reading
Introducing the swarm
I used to refer to myself as “One of Eight” in emails regarding my tutoring. Back in 2009 (or thereabouts) the University conceded to pressure from the trade union and put we lowly teaching assistants on a proper pay scale … Continue reading
Be careful what you “black box”
I often describe my job as a learning technologist as “trying not to break things”. Folk respond to this with a nervous laugh, because they are fairly sure it is a joke that they don’t understand, but there’s a serious … Continue reading
Posted in #rhizo14, Politics, Rhizomes, Technology, University
Tagged #rhizo14, human rights, learning technology, Tory government
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